Before I gave the dolls house a thorough clean, I thought I’d take a few photographs of the inside, while it looked like a miniature derelict house. It was a bit of an experiment with scale, to see what tricks the camera could play on the eye.
Leaving intact all the spiderwebs and decaying wallpaper and putting the dolls house in my garden so all that could be seen through the glass, I found the results of the photographs quite realistic and without anything of real size in the image to go by, it could easily be a life size building.
Having the grass in the background helped with the illusion of size and made the images remind me of an abandoned house in the woods I used to play in as a child. Also bringing back the slightly scared feeling of being alone in that house in the middle of the woods, the way that buildings like that are associated with creepiness from Halloween stories and dares, to scenes from horror films like Blair Witch Project.
I’m pleased with the effectiveness of these images and once I have cleaned and collaged the whole house, I will take some more photographs to play with the scale then as well.
